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Oh okay. At the rate I'm going I will be able to downvote after about 57 years. Hmm...
by 37 5y ago
Oh okay. At the rate I'm going I will be able to downvote after about 57 years. Hmm...
- LinuxBender 5y agoFor what its worth, karma is gained not only by discussion but also by article submission. If you found 1 article per day that evokes curious and thought provoking discussion then you would be well above the threshold in no time.
- tasogare 5y agoHint: anything with Rust in the title is upvoted regardless of the (lack of) content, if it stay positive towards the language.
- cinntaile 5y agoIt can be part of your new year's resolutions. Downvote at least one person you disagree with before the year's over.
- melling 5y agoI don’t downvote very often and I don’t do it simply because I disagree with someone. People downvoting for simple disagreements will create groupthink, and we loose the opportunity for having interesting discussions.
- cinntaile 5y agoI meant it as a joke, but indicating it's a joke ruins it. I suspect most downvotes come from disagreements, but there is no way to verify that.
- 37 5y agoFor the record, I interpreted it as a joke, but also somewhat of a inspirational challenge. But I don't care enough about downvotes to try that hard, so yeah. Also dang says it's never been against the rules to downvote because of disagreement.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772167 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772167
- cinntaile 5y agoI know Paul Graham explicitly said it's ok to downvote for disagreeing (I read it a few weeks ago, I cannot provide a source), but it's not like his words are religious scriptures haha. There's no real point in having rules you can't enforce anyway. If you wanted to stop that you would have to get rid of downvotes alltogether. I used to think downvotes were a good thing and I wished some other forums had them, but HNs downvote system changed my mind. I wonder if that would increase the load on the mods because then people would use flagging for that? I don't know. It's not my forum, I don't have access to the statistics and I don't get a say anyway!
- phaylon 5y agoBeen here 12.5 years and have 439 points. So I'm _almost_ there :)
- 37 5y agoKeep it up phaylon! +1 internet points to you!
- fouc 5y agoYou can get a decent amount of upvotes if you comment with a summary or include the best quotes from the linked article.
- sbarre 5y agoHonest question: If in over 10 years you've contributed to discussions so infrequently that you've barely accumulated 100 karma - including this post that accounts for a third or more of your karma now - and (as you said in another thread) you think you would only downvote a max of 3 times per year... Why do you want it?
- timbit42 5y agoJust yesterday someone called me "little shit" on here and I have no recourse. I'd like to be able to report that to the admins, but apparently the admins are OK with this type of behavior on here.
- JohnTHaller 5y agoYou can't downvote replies to you.
- timbit42 5y agoI'm aware. Notice I didn't ask to downvote, but to report to the admins.
- dang 5y agoWhat on earth makes you say that the admins are OK with that? It's obviously against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You can report comments by flagging them or in egregious cases by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
- Proven 5y ago